Film

Albany FilmFest is excited and honored to be able to showcase the work of Bay Area women filmmakers for the second consecutive year, particularly in this moment when women filmmakers in Hollywood are speaking loud and clear. Once again, we are so impressed by the range of issues (gentrification and displacement, women construction workers in(…)

A drama about a transgender woman has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Chilean film A Fantastic Woman has taken home the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, its only nomination. A Fantastic Woman’s director Sebastián Lelio, thanked star Daniela Vega when accepting the award. He said: “I want to thank the cast of(…)

The Sonoma International Film Festival has earned a reputation for blending Wine Country lifestyle with world-class films from around the world. This year’s festival, which takes place March 21-25, will feature 110 films from 18 countries and 200 filmmakers. The festival will celebrate food, wine and film and, in the wake of widespread sexual harassment(…)

Tickets on sale to the public Feb. 12 Sebastopol Center for the Arts is proud to announce the program for the 11th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. The festival will screen 66 documentaries, including one U.S. premiere and two Academy Award® nominated films. Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is scheduled for March. 22-25 with screenings taking(…)

GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, announced today the nominees for the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards live from the Sundance Film Festival. The 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by Delta Air Lines, Ketel One Vodka, and Wells Fargo. The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive(…)

The SF IndieFest is pleased to screen the following LGBTQ themed films as part of the 20th anniversary of the festival which returns to San Francisco February 1-15, 2018. More information at www.sfindie.com RUMINATIONS Robert James, 2018, USA, 78 min – World Premiere A gender-bending coming-of-age story of Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast co-founder of San Francisco’s(…)

Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and “Mudbound” cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.(…)

There is a new Exhibit of the work of PETER HUJAR a quintessential East Village photographer in the 1970’s and 1980’s whose stark black and white images beautifully captured a shifting generation who would soon be almost decimated by the AIDS pandemic, which would kill him too. The show, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life,(…)